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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Should poor countries remain poor?
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
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But right back where we started from.
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
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Classical Wisdom
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The Story of Thebes
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Overcoming Bias
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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What is Plagiarism?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
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a year ago
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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The Fall of a Republic
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
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The Birth of Ovid
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Immigration and crime: Sweden
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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